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    • About Us
    • Resources
    • Community Action
    • Gallery
    • Old Red Review Newsletter
    • Online Store
    • Family Histories
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Resources
  • Community Action
  • Gallery
  • Old Red Review Newsletter
  • Online Store
  • Family Histories

Panola County Resources

  • Detailed History of Panola County by Circulating Book Club 1935-1936 (This link is only available to Ancestry members.)
  • FREE Panola Watchman Newspapers Online, UNT Portal to TX History
  • Newspapers.com
  • Panola County TX - Stephen F. Austin University
  • Sammy Brown Library
  • Panola College Library Special Collections
  • Carthage, TX
  • Panola County Chamber of Commerce
  • Panola County, TX
  • Panola College Special Collections
  • East Texas Genealogy Society
  • Texas GenWeb Project Panola County, TX
  • Panola County Texas Historical Markers
  • Panola Co. TX Births 1930 - 1995
  • Texas State Historical Assoc. Panola County
  • Panola County TX Veterans Relief Fund
  • History of Beckville, TX
  • U.S. GenWebArchives
  • Family Search Panola County
  • Free Genealogy Web Sources
  • Civil War Archives
  • Genealogy Forms & Charts
  • Lone Star Genealogy
  • Texas Vital Records
  • Panola County, TX
  • Panola County TX History
  • TX Genealogy Trails, Panola County TX
  • Panola County TX Clerk Records
  • DeBerry, TX
  • Gary, TX
  • The Loblolly, Gary ISD, Lincoln King
  • Historical Gary TX
  • Beckville, TX
  • History of Beckville, TX
  • Fairplay, TX Facts & History
  • Rock Hill, Panola Co. TX
  • Riderville Panola Co., TX
  • Jasper Collins - Lawyer, Panola Watchman Editor & Proprietor, Texas Representative 1899
  • Tom Bowers - First Publisher of The Panola Watchman
  • 150 Years of The Panola Watchman Newspapers
  • Gary, TX
  • Loblolly - Carthage High School Baseball
  • East Texas Digital Archives (Stephen F. Austin University)

Oral History Links

  • SFASU East Texas Digital Archives Online
  • Panola College Oral Histories Online
  • Mrs. Joyce Worley, Long Branch Community
  • Panola CountySheriff Corbett Akins, 1942-1952
  • Mavis and Mable Bird, Telephone Switchboard Operators, Gary
  • Unnamed Panola County WWII POW in Gemany
  • Bev E. Brown, Carthage
  • Bob Beaty, WW II, Snap Community

THIS IS A PARTIAL LISTING. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS 

FOR YOU TO LISTEN TO, DOWNLOAD, AND PRINT.

Panola County Bragging Rights

  • Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Tex Ritter Museum
  • Jim Reeves - Singer
  • Walter Prescott Webb - Historian, Author, Force behind The Texas Handbook
  • Tex Ritter - Cowboy Singer, Movie Star
  • Linda Davis - Singer, Entertainer
  • Margie Neal - Suffragette, Female Newspaper Publisher, First Female Texas State Senator, Served in FDR's Administration 
  • Dr. Mildred Jefferson -  First African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1951, Pro-life Activist
  • SGM Milton Holland - First Black Texan Soldier to receive the Medal of Honor, Civil War
  • Bob Harness - Celebrated Artist and Sculptor
  • Donnie Pitchford - Lum & Abner Cartoonist
  • Derek Wayne Johnson - Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer
  • Bill O'Neal - Professor, Author, Speaker, Texas State Historian two terms
  • Dr. Oscar Cooper - Baylor University President 1899 - 1902
  • Thomas Otto Walton - Texas A&M  University President 1925-1943
  • Quintin M. Martin - Veteran, Educator, Principal, CISD Superintendent (1927-1966), Panola College President (1967-1973), Award-Winning Watercolor Artist
  • Lincoln King - Educator at Gary ISD, founder of Loblolly, and books created under his tutelage by his students using oral history interviews. Loblolly was an extremely successful publication about local people, traditions, folklore, folk crafts, and folk history.

Texas Historical Commission Links

Texas Historical Commission offers valuable resources, including its Veterans Portal, which connects individuals to genealogy research links and Panola County historical resources. Additionally, the Texas County Historical Commission provides a brochure outlining key information for local stakeholders. The Commission also conducts reviews and compliance for local preservationists, alongside offering orientation and training for County Historical Commission members. If you're looking for funding sources for historical preservation projects, don't forget to explore various Texas historical links that can guide your efforts.

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